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Lands and churches ofthe see ofSt Andrews The Cursus Apri, or Boar's Raik, was the territory immediately abbots. The isolated episcopal estate and residence at Inchmurdo surrounding St Andrews, probably corresponding with the modem probably represents part of this ancient endowment; even today the parishes of St Andrews and St Leonards, Cameron, Dunino, Ceres parish boundary crosses the Kenly Water to include the site of the and Kemback. The origin of the name is obscure, perhaps deriving 'palace'. Certainly the bishop's lands were not central to the Boar's from an especially memorable boar hunt or referring to a totemic Raik in the way the chapter's lands were. symbol of the local tribe or ruling family. According to the various Throughout the later twelfth century and the thirteenth twelfth-century legends describing the arrival of the relics of St there were a numberof agreements over lands and rights in the Boar's Andrew in Scotland, the Cursus Apri was the territory granted to the Raik between the bishop, the priory, the archdeacon of St Andrews, church of the apostle. and the Culdees (who formed the collegiate corporation of the This may well be the case, for despite being dispersed and church of St Mary of the Rock by the middle of the thirteenth alienated during the long interregnum following the death ofBishop century). As a result of these agreements the archdeacon came to Fothad IT in 1093, these same lands were nevertheless used to form hold a compact bloc of territory to the north of St Andrews, centred the basis ofthe endowment ofthe Augustinian priory in 1144. At the on Strathtyrum, and the Culdees held substantial groups of lands to same time, moreover, they were specifically stated not to belong to the east and south of the city. An inquest of 1309 found that there the office of the bishop. Those lands which the bishops of St were three baronies within the Boar's Raik: the bishop's, the Priory's Andrews did hold within the Boar's Raik therefore may have come and the Culdees', and that the latter two were subject to the bishop's to them by right of their implied status as inheritors of the Celtic authority. 12 1 SI Andrews Bay • • e • 20 .9 • • 4 1/J)14 • c:.3 \ " .5 .17 .93 d a .21 \ .16 \ .8 , 8 .1 d " , "',"' ---,--,-'-- J \ I , vt.lnino Burn I," , -' \ " '1 " " , ' \ \ \ kms I I I e Archdeacon 0 2 3 o SI. Mary on the Rock Archdeacon miles I/J)I Bishop I Strathtyrum Cathedral Priory 2 Balkaithly Cathedral Priory • Collegiate Church of St. Mary 1 Baldinnie? ('Balmacduncan') approximate boundary of the Boar's Raik on the Rock (Culdees) 2 Pitmullen I Cameron 3 Scoonie la Carngour (Kinninis) 4 Beley 2 Cairn? 5 Stravithie 3 Lambieletham 6 Lathockar 4 Scooniehill 7 Rademie 5 Kinkell 8 Cassindonald 6 Kingask 9 Priorletham (Letham) 7 Kinglassie 10 Balrymonth . 'n 8 Ceres Church Rathelpie Bishop 12 Balgove 1 Kincaple 13 Rumrnond 2 Nydie 14 Claremont 3 Kemback Church 15 Ladeddie 4 Blebo 16 Kinninmonth 5 Pittendreich l7 Denork 22 Kenly 6 St Andrews Castle 18 New Grange 23 Kilrymont 7 Inchmurdo 19 Balone 24 Peekie (Puthechin) 8 Dunino Church 20 Strathkinness 25 Nydie 9 Kilrymont 21 Drumcarrow 26 Kilrymont Church The Boar's Raik MA 362

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